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RuyaTech

Growth Engineering Retainer

Your product launched. Now keep it growing with a fractional CTO and dedicated engineering team on retainer.

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A growth engineering retainer is an ongoing post-launch engagement — dedicated engineering capacity for new feature development, performance monitoring, scaling support, and product strategy advisory — at a fixed monthly cost. Most agencies disappear after launch. We stay. Our Growth Engineering Retainer gives you a dedicated engineering team that ships new features, monitors performance, handles scaling challenges, and advises on product strategy — month after month. Think of it as a fractional CTO and engineering team, without the overhead of full-time hires.

Bake Genie started as a 2-week rescue. Six months later, the founder is still on retainer — shipping new features every sprint while the platform scales past 600 paying members.

See how the partnership started
Why Us

Why Choose Growth Engineering Retainer

What you get when you work with us on this.

Continuous Feature Development

New features shipped every sprint. We prioritize based on user feedback, analytics, and your business goals — not a static roadmap.

Performance & Scaling

Proactive monitoring, database optimization, and infrastructure scaling. We catch problems before your users do.

Code Health & Tech Debt

We keep your codebase clean and maintainable. Regular refactoring, dependency updates, and security patches — so technical debt never piles up.

Monthly Strategy Calls

Beyond code: product roadmap advice, architecture decisions, hiring guidance, and strategic input from engineers who know your product inside out.

Our Process

Our Process

Step-by-step approach tailored for Growth Engineering Retainer.

01

Onboarding & Audit

We review the current codebase, infrastructure, and product roadmap. We identify quick wins and set up monitoring.

02

Sprint Planning

Together we prioritize features, fixes, and improvements for the upcoming sprint based on business impact.

03

Build & Ship

Our team ships production-ready code every sprint. You review, approve, and see the impact in real time.

04

Monitor & Optimize

Continuous performance monitoring, user analytics review, and proactive optimization. We keep your product healthy and growing.

Growth Engineering Retainer — service overview
Technologies

Tech Stack We Use

The tools and frameworks we use to build your product.

Next.js
React
Node.js
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AWS
Vercel
Docker
CI/CD
Monitoring & APM
Engineering Partner

Need an Engineering Partner Who Stays After Launch?

Tell us about your product. We'll recommend the right retainer tier and set up your first sprint.

Talk About a Retainer

We respond within 4 hours during business hours. No obligation.

FAQs

Retainer FAQs

Common questions about our Growth Engineering Retainer.

Dedicated engineering hours each month, sprint-based feature development, bug fixes, performance monitoring, security updates, monthly strategy calls, and Slack/email access to your team. The exact scope depends on your plan.

Retainers come in tiers based on the level of engagement — from maintenance and light feature work, up to active feature development and scaling support. Every retainer is fixed monthly cost, scoped during your strategy session. We'll recommend the right tier once we understand your roadmap.

Yes. Our retainers are month-to-month after an initial 3-month commitment. We earn your business every month. That said, most clients stay for 6+ months because the partnership keeps delivering value.

No. We onboard to existing codebases all the time. We'll do a thorough audit during onboarding to understand the architecture, identify risks, and get productive quickly.

Every sprint starts with a prioritization call. We weigh user feedback, product analytics, revenue impact, and technical risk — then agree on the work for the next two weeks. You approve the plan before we write code. If priorities shift mid-sprint, we adjust together rather than waiting for the next cycle.

Yes. After the initial 3-month commitment, you can pause the retainer with 30 days' notice. When you're ready to resume, we pick up where we left off — no re-onboarding, no context loss. Most founders who pause come back within 2–3 months.

Hiring a senior engineer in-house means a full salary, recruiting time, ramp-up, and benefits before they ship anything. Our retainer gives you immediate senior-level output — plus architecture, product, and growth advisory built in. When you're ready to hire in-house, we help you recruit and hand off the codebase cleanly.

Yes, on the Active Development and Scale Partner tiers. We set up monitoring and alerting during onboarding, and respond to production incidents within agreed SLAs. For the Maintenance tier, we respond to critical issues during business hours and document non-urgent items for the next sprint.

Absolutely. You receive full source code ownership, documentation, and deployment guides. No proprietary frameworks, no vendor lock-in. Many clients eventually hire internal teams using our foundation.